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TIL BBB has a "'pay for your rating" system, and is incredibly corrupt.

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0wByA TIL that the US fought a culture war against sagging pants during which at least one person was jailed and numerous others were fined, suspended, and "urkeled"
woPGY TIL in 2007, Malaysia sent its first astronaut to the ISS. The government and Islamic scholars also wrote that in order to pray, Muslims in space should face Mecca if possible; but if not, they could face the Earth generally, or just face “wherever.”
VBEyp TIL that Richard Feynman, one of the greatest theoretical physicists ever, was rejected admission to Columbia University because of his Jewish ancestry and instead went to MIT.
KolQ TIL Stalin’s body double was teased in school because of the resemblance with Stalin
RpX6 TIL celebrated British military surgeon James Barry was found to be a woman on his death